In spring 2013, Barron added MasteringChemistry prelecture homework assignments: short, untimed assignments due before lecture designed to help increase student awareness about new topics and to identify student misconceptions and areas of misunderstanding. Barron tells students it is okay to be confused after doing the homework because the concepts will become clear during class. Mastering default grading is designed to reward honest work.

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Statistically, students who use hints when they need them get higher final grades even when professors charge a penalty for opening hints. My absolute favorite part of MasteringA&P was the Interactive Physiology Tutorial. These tutorials deconstructed each subject down to its foundation and then, layer by layer, taught the physiology of the systems in a way that made it easy to understand. Watching the tutorials made the human body come alive and helped me understand the topic in a way that just reading a book or looking at ...

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